Welcome to the Counselors' Corner

At Kissam all students receive weekly guidance lessons during their rotation time. During lessons students learn social and emotional skills to help them be more successful academically and behaviorally. These skills are taught through a research based and district purchased curriculum called Second Step. Some skills we have learned so far this school year are: 

• Learning to listen
• Focusing attention
• Following directions
• Using self-talk
• Being assertive
• Being respectful
• Empathy
• Identifying and predicting feelings
• Understanding different perspectives

All lessons are sequential and developmentally appropriate and build upon one another to help the child grow throughout the year.